Cognitive Development Flashcards
A Piagetian approach to cognitive development assumes that cognitive development is independant from what other development?
Language developement.
List 4 ways in which information enters the mind to stimulate cognitive development.
Through perception of sound, visual information, speech and touch.
This affects cognition by helping to define what we know, what is important, how we approach new tasks , how we interact.
Cultural background.
True or False: Socialization is an important aspect of cognitive development.
True.
Fill in the blank: Play has an important role in ______________.
Cognitive development.
Teacher’s questions can require different levels of abstraction in terms of cognitive skills. LIst them.
Taxonomy, demostration of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, syntheseis and evaluation.
True or False: Organizing a text spatially may hinder a student organizing the text cognitively.
False. It can help the student organize the text cognitively.
Cognitive organization helps students store and remember concepts. Providing repitition allows students to see what?
Patterns, parallels, comparisons, and similarities. These all help them to learn.
Fill in the blank: In terms of cognitive development, students learn when there is ________ between what they think and new __________ that they receive. Often this causes the student to accommodate, or to modify a _______ scheme, based on new information.
conflict; information; cognitive
What is a cognitive scheme?
A cognitive structure that organizes information, making sense of experience.
Motor, language, thinking, social, etc are all examples of what?
Different domains in which students develop cognitive schemes.
Students interpret the world and experiences in terms of their cognitive schemes, which have been developed based on what?
Previous experiences.
True or False: Students don’t need support to learn new concepts in terms of contextualizion, breaking down concepts, etc.
False. They often need support.
In relation to the last card, list some examples of effective support.
Practice, repetition, and experience which aide in generalizing a concept.
True or False: Once a student can repeat a concept this means that the sudent understands it.
False. Students can memorize language without understanding what it really means.
List an example of evidence that a student understands a concept.
When a student can answer questions spontaneously about the concept, or can show that he understands.
True or False: Understanding a concept and being able to talk about a concept are not the same thing.
True. Being able to talk about a concept often helps a student understand it.
What is the goal of education?
For students to acquire thinking skills, not just memorize facts.
How are students like scientists?
They try and explore and figure out how the world works based on what they see, do and hear.
What three areas do students learn a great deal from?
Exploration, making mistakes, and self-correction.
FIll in the blank: Behavioral approaches to learning propose that positive behavior can be increased by the use of ___________.
Positive reinforcers.
Punishment or the withdrawl of privileges can decrease what?
Negative behavior.
True or False: Strict behaviorism does not recognize the acitve cognitive construction on the part of the student.
True.
